Expeditions - Cpt GH Wilkins to Australia and Arctic, 1923-1959
- Component identifier:
- File CP 392/2
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(324p.)
Correspondents include: J Grierson (Hawridge); Wilkins (London, Fairbanks Alaska, New York, Thursday Island, Crocodile Island); EG Benn (London); Lura B Shreck (San Francisco); Allan A Spowers (Surveyor General, Brisbane).
Subjects include: proposed biography of GHW by Grierson; obituary (The Times, 2 December 1958); polar exploration by submarine; presentation to the Museum of rights in Undiscovered Australia; publication of Undiscovered Australia; plans for Arctic flight; films made in Australia for Church Missionary Society; collecting on Thursday Island; scarcity of fauna on trip overland, Katherine to Goyder River; collecting geological specimens, Flinders River.
Includes: SPG Carpentaria Association, Report, 1928 and 1927.
Reports by Keepers on specimens brought back by Wilkins.
6th Report, 6-26 April 1924.
5th Report, 1 January-31 March 1924.
A report on some geographical features that differ from those shown on map section 21A issued by Lands Dept., Brisbane by GHW, 1923.
4th Report, December 1923.
3rd Report, 24 November 1923.
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- M2525
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Parkes PlaceCanberra ACT 2600, Australia
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